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In order to stimulate the baby to speak, interactive family games, interaction with other children are required, in addition to stimulating the baby with music and drawings for short periods of time. These actions are essential for vocabulary growth, as they facilitate the differentiation of words and sounds, which naturally leads to the formation of the first sentences.
Although babies under 1 and a half years are unable to say the full words and communication does not seem to return, they are already able to understand them, so pronouncing correctly and pausing between words helps the child to focus on sounds each of them, thus contributing to learning. Understand the baby's speech development by age.
To encourage the baby to speak, games and activities can be done, such as:
1. Chatting while playing with the baby
Talking and narrating the day-to-day tasks while playing with the baby does what the focus is trained on, in addition to stimulating the desire to repeat the words, since the child will want to answer what is said.
Another advantage of talking to babies, is that since birth they are already able to recognize the voices of parents and family, and listening to them during the day can make the baby calmer and have a better night's sleep.
2. Encourage the child to say the name of what he wants
Whenever the child wants a toy or object and aims to have it, correctly repeating the name of what is asked helps the baby understand how to pronounce the words.
3. Choose toys that make sounds
Toys that emit sounds like that of animals or nature, can help the baby to differentiate what is a sound from a person, from an environment and from a word for example, in addition to stimulating the vocal cords, as the baby will try to imitate the sounds you hear.
4. Read to the baby
Reading to babies, when done with the words pronounced correctly and interactively, giving voices and facial expressions to the characters, is able to enrich the children's vocabulary, arouse attention and curiosity, in addition to working on the recognition of emotions.
5. Encourage the child to be with others
Playing and socializing with other children of the same age and also older ones helps to stimulate speech due to the need to communicate, in addition to working on the development of empathy, as in these moments the toys and the attention of the elderly will be divided.
6. Allow them to watch drawings
The exposure time to screens, when controlled by the parents, provides the child with different accents and ways of speaking that the baby is used to at home.
All this will serve to increase the vocabulary, making it easier for the child to form the first sentences, in addition to providing examples of shapes and colors, essential for the development of the compression of the environment.
7. Sing for the baby
The voice of the parents and closest family members is the first sound that the baby is able to recognize, and doing what the child has the possibility to hear new words in different tones, in the voices he already knows, helps the child to assimilate more easily what is said, in addition to providing the feeling of comfort and security.